{"id":125728,"date":"2021-08-01T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/engineers-develop-a-simple-way-to-desalinate-water-using-solar-energy"},"modified":"2021-08-01T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T04:22:57","slug":"engineers-develop-a-simple-way-to-desalinate-water-using-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/engineers-develop-a-simple-way-to-desalinate-water-using-solar-energy","title":{"rendered":"Engineers develop a simple way to desalinate water using solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-develop-a-simple-way-to-desalinate-water-using-solar-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Distillation of water using solar energy is considered one of the most popular desalination methods today.<\/p>\n<p>Power engineers at Ural Federal University (UrFU), together with colleagues from Iraq, have developed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/novel-device-harvests-drinking-water-humidity-around-clock\/19791\/\">desalination technology<\/a>, which is claimed to be much more effective than others, by incorporating a rotating cylinder. The method proposed by the UrFU power engineers will significantly reduce the cost of desalination and will increase production volumes by four times.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental new solar distiller incorporates a rectangular basin, inside of which is a horizontally oriented black steel cylinder. The basin is filled with undrinkable water, and the cylinder is slowly rotated by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inceptivemind.com\/tag\/solar-power\/\">solar-powered<\/a> DC motor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distillation of water using solar energy is considered one of the most popular desalination methods today. Power engineers at Ural Federal University (UrFU), together with colleagues from Iraq, have developed a new desalination technology, which is claimed to be much more effective than others, by incorporating a rotating cylinder. The method proposed by the UrFU [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}